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Final Blackout by L. Ron Hubbard
Book Summary InformationAuthor: L. Ron Hubbard Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1996-10 ISBN: 1592120555 Number of pages: 206 Publisher: Bridge Publications (CA)
Book Reviews of Final BlackoutBook Review: Awful Pulp Summary: 2 Stars
You know one should be used to the Great Man takes on the system book by now. They are so numerous that they shouldn't even annoy anymore. Yet this book takes it to the extreme. The Lieutenant is the great one, the grand poobah, the rebel leader hero. Everyone else is either a loyal follower or an evil petty bureaucrat. Sadly Hubbard spends many pages reinforcing these thin characterizations. Yes this book was written when he was young and it wasn't meant to endure. Maybe it can be read as a hokey 1940 pulp and a testament to the paranoia of perpetual war. It almost belongs more to the Vietnam era than WWII since all the generals and upper level military guys are selfish fools ready to sacrifice a million lives for their own glory (there's even the American Imperialists at the end) but I doubt the unadulterated praise for the Lieutenant would fly any better in Vietnam War America. Either way it's a dull book full of cliches that would have been long out of print without Scientology.
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